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Word: modell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers put him up for their clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Serious | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...Preuss declared that in drawing up the German Republican Constitution he used the Constitution of U. S. as a model, to some extent, but believed that he greatly improved upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1925 | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENCKEN'S MENTAL MARIBOU'S | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Frank Brangwyn, the English artist whose exhibition followed that of the more popular and better advertised Zuloaga at the Vose Galleries last winter, seeks a human likeness to his conception of Christ. A short while ago the original model, an Italian ice cream vendor, died. Since then the artist has searched Europe in vain for one to take his place. This painting of the Christ was to be the great achievement, crowning all others, which was to complete Mr. Branwyn's artistic career. And now it is doomed to remain without a face. For nowhere can he find features with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACE OF FAITH | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...hard straight lines of an iron age have marked its men. Only among the hills or upon the plains where the world still seems but an unnecessary preface to the heavens can the face of a man take on the spirituality of a Christ. Mr. Brangwyn may find his model there. If he cannot, he has cut deep into the flesh of modern pride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FACE OF FAITH | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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